The folk music piece "Tea Picking Dance" comes from the album "Chinese Music Map: Listening to the History of Chinese Yangqin Music Collection"

Tea picking Dance Song

Folk music arrangement: Shi Yue Ethnic group: Han nationality Region: Zhejiang

Yangqin: Shi Yue

The "Tea Picking Dance Song" is a Zhejiang folk song created in the 1970s. It is the theme song and dance score of the modern Yue opera "Before the Rain". The entire song is based on the tones of Yue Opera and combines dance style. The melody is beautiful and smooth, and it was once popular. The yangqin, introduced from Persia in the late Ming Dynasty, has been passed down and evolved in China for nearly 400 years, and has become unique in performance art and music creation. Young dulcimer Shi Yue added dulcimer playing techniques based on the traditional folk song "Tea Picking Dance", using a crisp and lively melody to reproduce the busy and joyful tea picking scene of tea farmers in Jiangnan.

A fresh and moving melody, soft and delicate, scattered among the green mountains and waters, like the morning sun shining into the lake, shining with dazzling light. Subsequently, the music jumped joyfully, as if the birds were chirping in the tea forest, and the singing was gentle; It's like groups of tea picking girls in small groups, stepping on the beat of early spring morning and laughing heartily. The playful and repetitive phrases make the branches stretch out with new greenery, shimmering with the happy shadows of the girls. The slender hands seemed to pluck the tender green strings, picking up the strands of spring light, teasing the spring tea to dance lightly and stirring the fragrance of the tea to the sky.